Hybrids, Thoroughbreds, and Survival
Pioneering Post-modern composer Scott Johnson will use his own work as a point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion.
When: Monday, June 2, 2008, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Old Little Theater 154, UCSB
Cost: Not available
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Lectures
Description: Topics of discussion will be: modernism and post-modernism, the impact of technological change, the relationship between art musics and popular musics, and the evolution and transformation of musical genres.
Johnson's music and ideas grow from a desire to re-integrate elements of our living musical vernaculars into the contemporary classical tradition, and a conviction that this relationship with popular culture is very much in keeping with that tradition. The history of Western art music is a balance of seemingly contradictory impulses, in which hybridism and the appropriation of folk and popular musics co-exist with a focus on technical innovation and purity of practice.
Phone: 805-893-2660
Event posted May 23, 2008
Last updated May 23, 2008
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